St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 5 Blog Friday 17th March
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 3:41pm
Happy Friday and Happy St. Patrick's Day.
We have had another great week in Year 5.
We have been very active. We did netball in PE and enjoyed our session with Freddy Fit on Wednesday.
In French we learnt how to change masculine adjectives into their feminine form, then we used these feminine adjectives to write a card for a special lady to tell her how amazing she is! I hope the children can read and translate for you.
In English we have started to plan a newspaper report. The newspaper will be written to the creatures of Narnia informing them that the White Witch has started to lose her powers. This has meant that Father Christmas and summer have both returned to Narnia after years of being forbidden. We hope our newspaper reports will make the creatures feel excited and hopeful. So far we have looked at some examples of happy news stories to identify their features and some good words.
Here are some of the words we picked out:
decades species spectacular temperature significant impact legendary record environment impact discovered
Next week we are going to be looking at writing quotes using the correct punctuation, and then planning and writing our newspaper article.
In maths we have been practising different mental methods to add and subtract four-digit numbers and numbers with decimal places. The strategies we have practised include bridging, counting on and compensating.
One of the most important things when doing these methods to solve a calculation is that we know our numbers facts. Have a practise on Hit the Button to get quicker and more confident.
In geography we have started to investigate and try to answer this question:
What makes North America such a diverse continent?
We found out the meaning of some key words.
Diverse - showing variety
Continent - continuous mass of land
We also thought about the continents we have studied in other year groups and identified ways that each of the continents is diverse. We thought about the climate, geographical features like mountains, rivers and lakes, oceans, land use, and jobs and products made and sold.
We are excited to learn more about the diversity in North America.
Did you know that it is the third largest continent?
Lenten Promises
We are still spending the season of Lent thinking about how we can become better people. So many people have brought in money and donations for the Foxton Centre and Barnardo's and are really spending their time thinking of people less fortunate than themselves.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every night for 20 minutes. Retell what you have read in your own words.
Also, look out for the way speech is punctuated, this will help with your writing next week.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. Practise every night. Ask somebody at home to test you so you know which you need to focus on.
These spellings all have the prefix mis-, dis-, or in-
misjudge mismanage misconduct
discontinue dishonest disloyal disobey discourage
inconvenient incapable inaccurate inadequate inappropriate
Newspaper articles
If you can, read some magazines and newspaper articles. Look out for some good vocabulary to use in your own writing.
Number
Play on Hit the Button to become quicker and more confident with your number facts.
Times tables
Practise your times tables every day. Say them out loud, write them down, ask people at home to test you.
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge
Number Challenge
Spelling Competition
Have a happy weekend!